Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino delighted with a 5-0 clean sheet home victory and answers whether qualifying fr European football make this a successful season for Chelsea considering the season as a whole and the cup semi-finals they have also attended
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00:00 To start things off today.
00:01 Anyone? Jacob, why don't you go?
00:05 You must be delighted with the big home win?
00:08 Yeah, yeah. So, please, I'm so happy.
00:12 Continuous, the same feelings after Thursday.
00:15 Keep the momentum.
00:18 I think the performance was fantastic in all the aspects.
00:20 I think, yes, so please, the players deserve big credit,
00:27 you know, because after a few days to play again and in this level, I think, massive credit for them.
00:33 Liam.
00:34 Hi.
00:35 No, yes, I think the assist for Noni to
00:54 Jackson showed that we learn, that we are smart.
00:59 The situation with the penalty, if you remember, we received too many criticisms, but
01:07 a young team always needs to make the mistake.
01:10 Always we need to feel this situation to improve.
01:16 We are capable to improve it because we are smart and clever people, intelligent people.
01:21 I think today was a great, great, you know, action of Noni to see how the group start to,
01:30 you know, start to live and how we start to feel in between, you know, them.
01:34 And I think it always is a process that takes time.
01:38 You never know if it's going to take one month, six months or one year.
01:43 But I think the most important thing that they start to settle the principles, you know, to
01:50 start to feel and live like a group of players that are creating all the links to compete,
01:59 because that is the reality.
02:01 So pleased for that, because I think we are part of this process, helping them, you know,
02:06 to grow and to be more mature and to improve in all the aspects.
02:10 I think that is only the first step, massive step, but this is the step that we wanted to reach.
02:17 From there now is only, you know, to evolve in all the other aspects with the possibility
02:23 to go in a tactical, you know, evolution, differences that we can improve from there.
02:29 But if not, without principles or without, you know,
02:34 things that we start to show, being competitive in this way,
02:40 it's impossible to evolve in another aspect.
02:44 Kai, thank you.
02:46 There were a few times during the season, and maybe especially at Fongo de Pé,
02:50 the team was playing very well.
02:52 You remember I scored first, and once the position scored and you got an exit,
02:56 you see that the mentality was a little bit intense, you know, or playing more in your own path.
03:03 And the last weekend, because I would say also, as a leader, you scored the second one,
03:06 you went for the third one, against Perth, you called Perth to keep pushing,
03:10 to keep, like, you look at it absolutely in control, you're playing the same,
03:14 scoring after three, four, and the team always looked in control and wanted more.
03:18 That changes because it's part of the process, it's normal to leave the stage,
03:23 but because you feel that finally your players are like material cement,
03:27 they're not a football white, just, you know, nothing else.
03:29 What I cannot, more.
03:35 That's perfect.
03:36 Yes, of course.
03:37 Who I think knows about football is, in all the process, to build a team is the most difficult
03:47 thing, because you need to have the knowledge and you need to have the capacity, you know,
03:51 to emphasize with every single play.
03:54 Because before to talk about the collective, it's the individual part of the most difficult
04:00 scene, because they need to feel the confidence, they need to trust in us, in the staff, in the
04:08 coaching staff, and we need to create this, you know, bond together.
04:12 That is the most important thing.
04:14 And then you need to start to identify the player that's in different, you know,
04:20 aspects, what they need for after to perform and to show the quality inside to the pitch.
04:28 All this process always takes time.
04:30 More with the circumstance that we had from the beginning of the season, that never was,
04:35 you know, perfect in terms of, you know, to have all the players, you know, in the same
04:40 time, in the same level, you know, competing, you know, and trying to, you know, improve
04:46 quicker than the reality was.
04:50 And then to work with expectation, the expectation from the beginning.
04:54 The expectation is like if you compare with the competition.
04:58 The competition doesn't wait for you because you need to compete with the Premier League,
05:01 with the team that are preparing to come here and kill you.
05:04 And the expectation is impossible also to fight again or to, you know, to be, you know,
05:10 because expectation is expectation.
05:12 But then you need to defend yourself or after you need to explain, but always it's going
05:16 to be in front of you, they say, yeah, yeah, but that only are excuses because you don't
05:22 perform.
05:22 But who knows a little bit about football when the team is young and with all the parts
05:28 you need to put all together and to start to work into everyone, find their space and
05:34 start to feel really confident.
05:35 That is the most difficult thing and always take time.
05:38 Now, I think, and I told you, I think a few weeks ago, I say I am so happy because I think
05:43 we are so close, you know, to be in that position.
05:48 That is the first step that after Tottenham, I told you, in the way that we compete was
05:52 fantastic.
05:53 And then to give this momentum and I think the team is growing so up very fast now because
05:59 that is a standard, the minimum standard that we need if we want to compete in this league.
06:05 But now it's like the maturity of Lugnone.
06:09 The other to be selfish and to play and try to score him, give the assist to and this
06:14 type of thing when it starts to appear on the team is a very positive signal that the
06:21 thing were tough to arrive here.
06:24 But now it's like everything is going so so fast and it's going to be fast because
06:28 we have the quality.
06:29 OK, we've got time for two more.
06:30 Jack and then Nick's finish.
06:32 Mauricio, the competition for the European places now is quite close with yourselves
06:37 and the teams around you.
06:39 If you can finish in the top six, how successful a season would that be with the Cubs and
06:43 the Lugnone?
06:45 I don't want to say nothing because, you know, from the beginning of the season, I
06:49 say the objective always is to win because we are in Chelsea, but I think that creates
06:53 too much pressure.
06:54 And of course, now the team is about to be focusing to rest tomorrow and Tuesday prepare
07:00 and start to prepare the game again Saturday.
07:03 I think the objective for us is to be mature and to keep the momentum and, you know, compete,
07:10 improving every single game.
07:12 And of course, I think we are going to try to be in Europe and it's going to be good
07:19 for the team and for the players to be in Europe next season.
07:24 But I cannot say that to describe the season, a successful season, if you know, win a title
07:33 here in Chelsea, because again, expectation always is to win titles with Chelsea.
07:38 Circumstances show that the reality was really, really tough, you know, from day one to arrive
07:45 today.
07:46 But deep inside, players, staff, all that we were living, the reality, I think the staff
07:56 is happy.
07:56 The players are so happy because I think in the really tough moment, we keep pushing and
08:04 we really believe and we never give up.
08:08 And even with the criticism and many things, again, we were there.
08:12 That is the important thing that when we talk about experience, about quality and capacity,
08:18 you know, to deal with things, you know, to enjoy today this type of performance with
08:24 this team.
08:24 I think that is all that we have in our head, in our mind, in our head.
08:29 And yes, now is about to be clever and smart and to keep this momentum until the end of
08:35 the season.
08:35 OK, last question.
08:36 Stay, Nick.
08:37 Yeah, this role, yeah, this role like another that we can implement, you know, in the future.
08:49 But before that is because, you know, you need to build the belief, the confidence,
08:56 the trust, the team need to compete.
09:00 I think all the tactical evolution that we have in our head, like coaching staff.
09:05 Yes, we will apply, you know, in the future.
09:09 But the most important thing, if you don't, you know, you cannot sit if you don't have
09:14 a chair.
09:14 But before you need to build the chair and, you know, it's true.
09:20 The problem in football, you don't have a team, but you expect to behave like a team.
09:26 You are so selfish and after you need to be generous on the pitch.
09:31 It's the priorities in football who, you know, like an engineer that is going to build
09:38 a building, you know, I want to see so quick the nice furniture in the flat and, you know,
09:45 and sleep there.
09:46 Yeah, but first, first of all, we need to build the structure and everything.
09:51 That is why sometimes we made a mistake when we shush the show of the people, the coaching
09:58 staff and also young players.
10:01 That is always, I always say, always be careful in the way that we shush because the most
10:06 important thing is to see in which moment we are, in which type of team, all the things
10:14 that always you need to start for the priority.
10:17 Great, thank you very much.
10:18 Thank you, guys.
10:19 Thank you.
10:20 Thank you.
10:20 Thank you.
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